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“You can have faith in God or gods. You can have faith in people. But these aren't separate choices—when humans claim to speak for the divine, they inevitably speak from their own understanding, their own limitations, and their own agenda.”
“You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.”
“You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.”
“You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.”
“You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.”
“You can have flawless skin, a pretty face, a good heart and a sharp mind and people are still not gonna think you're perfect because that's just the way it is. Unless and until you act the way people want you to, they're not gonna like you.”
Source: sparked
“You can have flaws, be anxious and even be angry, but do not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can stop it from failing. You are appreciated, admired and loved by so many. Remember that being happy is not having a sky without storm, a road without accidents, a job without effort, a relationship without disappointments.
“To be happy is to stop feeling like a victim and become the author of your own fate.” It's walking through deserts, but being able to find an oasis deep in the soul. Is thanking God every morning for the miracle of life. It’s kissing your children, cuddling your parents, having poetic moments with your friends, even when they hurt us.
“Being happy is letting the creature that lives in each of us live, free, joyful and simple. You have the maturity to be able to say: "I've made mistakes". It's having the courage to say I'm sorry. It's having the sense to say "I need you". Is having the ability to say "I love you". May your life become a garden of opportunities for happiness... that in spring he may be a lover of joy and in winter a lover of wisdom.
"And when you make a mistake, start over. Because only then will you be in love with life. You'll discover that being happy isn't having a perfect life. But use tears to irrigate tolerance. Use your defeats to train your patience.
"Use your mistakes with the serenity of the sculptor. Use pain to tune into pleasure. Use obstacles to open the windows of intelligence. Never give up ... Above all never give up on the people that love you. Never give up on being happy, because life is an incredible spectacle.”
“You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.”
“You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.”
“You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day”
“You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful.”
“You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.”
“You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?”
“You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.”
“You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way”
“You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.”
Source: Player One
“You can have it all but how much do you want it?”
“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
“You CAN have it all. Sometimes it just takes a little time to figure out your strategy to get there.”
“You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.”
“You can have it all, but not all at once.”
“You can have it all, but you can't do it all.”
“You can have it all, just not all at the same time.”
“You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.”
“You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion. That's what it's called dead dry religion......Jesus said you are a bunch of white washed tombs full of dead men's bones, and I tell you if that didn't describe me I don't know what did, because on Sunday mornings I dressed it up and took it to church.”
“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.”
“You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.”
Source: Preaching and Preachers
“You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak means that are more effective than strong ones, as Paul also said in his First Letter to the Corinthians. [...] The wisdom of discernment redeems the necessary ambiguity of life and helps us find the most appropriate means, which do not always coincide with what looks great and strong.”
“You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.”
“You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.”
“You can have love that is actually so good it is beyond your wildest imagination!”
Source: Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love
“You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity”
“You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment”
“You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.”
“You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.”
Source: Eclipse
“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”
“You can have more children only according to your ability to feed them.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.”
“You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.”
“You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.”
“You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”
“You can have my soul when I don't want it anymore.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Sneak Peek
“You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.”
Source: Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“You can have nice things. Or you can have cats.”
“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.”
Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood
“You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.”
“You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“You can have nothing to fear.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.”